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This stimulating and fascinating volume by one of the 20th Centurys greatest philosophers is a It is consequently incorrect to assert that aprioristic insight and pure reasoning do not convey any information about reality and the structure of the universe

Part I, "Systematic Analysis of the Theories of the Business Cycle," includes seven chapters. The method employed presents the theories in a systematic order, beginning with the less complicated and proceeding to the more complicated. In addition, prefere

Although Cohen was unrivaled in contemporary American philosophy for the diversity of the subjects with which he occupied himself, it is from logic that he has drawn the basic principles that enable him to survey so wide a domain with such a unity of view

Marx's attack on Proudhon's Systme des Contradictions conomiques ou Philosophie de la Misere was first published in French in 1847. There is a good deal of rather turgid logomachy about "value" but also several interesting details illustrative of the gene

This is Wittgenstein's posthumous book. The original German is given side by side with the English translation by G.E.M. Anscombe, which has undergone many corrections for this edition. Philosophical Investigations, like the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The economic writing of Ludwig von Mises spanned seventy years from 1902 to 1972. His major work, Human Action, is truly the economics bible for all peoples. However, he first rose to eminence
For six decades Mises warned against the fallacious doctrines

Wright's last word is that "natural law, in its essence, is the attempt to solve the insolvable." And that, indeed, it is. It is the projected validation of an "ought," itself the sanctification of a wish. The validation is procured by the mere attachment

A study of Plato is peripheral to the objective of this book. The purpose is to demonstrate that right action and right social order are determined by the nature of man; that this nature is a propensity or system of change which follows a pattern of a cer

This synthesis of the varying concepts of natural law through the ages with resultant moral, juridical, and legal implications for man, considered as an individual, and as a member of politically organized society, is a translation of the work Die ewige W

Economists will be grateful to have again readily available Wieser's statement of marginal utility as formulated by the Austrian school (Book I), his abstraction from differences of purchasing power which make prices deviate from "natural value" (Book II)

Herbert Spencer believed in the ubiquity of the fundamental processes of integration, dissolution, equilibration, segregation and differentiation. These are subsumed under his concept of evolution, defined as the trend towards increasing differentiation c

It was this work that the great economist F. A. Hayek had his students, one-by-one, promise to him they would read in order to acquire the requisite apprehension of the philosophy of science. It was only this way he felt they would have the ability to gra

Hare describes his book as "an introduction to ethics" for beginners (p. v), but it is more ambitious than that. Prospective readers should not take the author's modest claim too seriously, for the book is not an "introduction." It is a perceptive contrib

The appearance of Wicksells classic work is long overdue, and it is a matter of satisfaction that the undertaking has been entrusted to the highly competent hands of the Mises Institute.
The subject of the discount rate as an instrument of credit regulati

This is a serious and useful study of the metaphysics of Marxism. Harry Burrows Acton points out that for the most part Marxism is regarded as "a body of economic and social doctrine" and has therefore been chiefly "dealt with by economists, social theori

This subtitle, A Logico-mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, indicates very well the nature of the work. The first three quarters of the book are devoted to a critical analysis of the idea of previous writers (Kant, Leibnitz, Grassmann, Mill,

This book is primarily a financial history of the years 1913-46, although, as the title suggests, it covers a wider range. Several chapters are devoted to foreign financial developments and to political changes that affected financial conditions. From 192

It gives a general account of the measures of control taken in Great Britain during the First World War, and though other writers had dealt with the subject previously at the time, and most of the figures given were available elsewhere, Shadwell's judgmen

"Once we venture beyond the rudiments," says Bell, "we may agree that those who cultivate mathematics have more interesting things to say about it than those who merely venerate." No more eloquent substantiation of this assertion could be wished for than

Peters begins by illustrating the thesis that many different sorts of question can be asked about human behavior and that each requires a logically different type of answer. In asking the general question "why did X do that?" at least three sorts of answe

Among the anti-Communist literature written by ex-Communists, Rossi's book (originally published in 1948 as Physiologie du Parti Communiste Franais) is of particular value to the critical student. The author, an Italian socialist who joined the Communist

The Principles of Science (first published in 1873) is one of the classical expositions of the traditional belief in two distinct but parallel kinds of inference-theory, deductive and inductive logic. The book shows a considerable advance on J. S. Mill's

To witness Bhm-Bawerk or Mr. [H. W. B.] Joseph carving up Marx is but a pedestrian p leasure; for these are but pedestrian wri ters, who are so pedestrian as to clutch at the p lain meaning of words, not realising that what Marx really meant has no neces

This is a book of collected essays by one of America's most eminent 20th-Century philosophers, Morris Cohen. The essays cover a wide range of topics indicative of Cohen's fertile mind, and a wide range of time as well (1910 to 1940). His is a wide intelle

The book was originally published in 1931 in German. It was one of the series of tracts issued under the name of Beitrage Zur Konjunkturforschung by the Austrian Institute for Trade Cycle Research of which F.A. Hayek was the director. The book made its ap

When first released most contributions that dealt with the history of Greek science had been written primarily for the specialist and few scholarly works were available that gave a panoramic picture of the whole field of ancient scientific thought and ach

This work pines for a return to the printing press. Its insightful look into government involvement with science will have libertarians and adherers to the Austrian school taking much delight in it. In John R. Bakers words, in Great Britain there develope

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinsons work introduces us to the Spanish Schoolmen, who were striving in the middle of the sixteenth century to adjust the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas to a situation caused by the end of the Moorish wars, the unification of Spain a